Godlessness and coffee

[sarahmichigan]

I've got a "Why I'm an atheist" post percolating, especially after some discussion with dionysus1999 yesterday, but it's not quite ready for posting.

So, in the meantime, do you like coffee? Why or why not?
How do you like it? Black? With cream or sugar?
Do you like it prepared a certain way, say on the stove in and old-fashioned percolator, or in a french press? What makes this method superior?
Do you have a favorite "froofy" drink when you go out to a coffee shop?
Which coffee shops make the best coffee and which are over-rated?
Have you tried to cut down on caffeine, and how successful were you?
Did you used to dislike coffee but acquired a taste for it?
What do you think about flavored coffees?

Tell me your thoughts on java, please!

Comments

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

The smell of American coffee gives me nausea. How much I can tolerate coffee shops is based on the other odors in the air, but most of them have enough other smells to make the coffee smell a dull static. Diners, on the other hand, can overwhelm me. I have to hold my breath around the coffee section in Trader Joe's, which is really annoying since they moved it so close to the fruit.

I like the smell of real coffee, i.e., the thick black stuff they serve in Europe by the thimbleful that Starbuck's tries (somewhat successfully) to emulate.

I don't consume caffeine in any form other than chocolate, where the molecules are complex enough that the caffeine doesn't bother me.

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

Oh, and on those rare occasions that coffee is made at home, I like it when it's from a French press, and mostly black. My beer and my coffee, same quirk: I don't normally like either, but when I have it, it has to be strong.